Amusement device



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"Feb. 8,1927.

N. KATZIN 1 AMUSEMENT DEVICE Filed July 5, 1926 Patented Feb. 8, i927,

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7 Application filed July 3,

This invention relates to amusement de-' vis on for selectively indicating questions and indicating answers for the same, the

said device preferably employing dials'such' as are used for tuning dials of radio sets.

It is the purpose of this invention to pro vide novel means for moving current controlling elements during the manipulation of an indicator of the device, locatingjthe question which the user wishes to ask, and to provide a switch operable in connection with the circuit control independently movable, and having means associated with it pointing to the answer of the question propounded.

It is a further object of this invention to provide means'for establishing a circuit through a lamp which is intended to denote that the pointer has been directed to the answer to the question. 7

It is a still further object of this invention to produce a device of the character indicated which will operate in'a manner embodied in the process of tuning a radio, a condition which will prove to be amusement incident to its use. I

With the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention 'consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts tobe hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed;

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a case;

Figure 2 illustrates an end view thereof;

Figure 3 illustrates a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 4;

Figure 4 illustrates a view in elevation of the interior of the case just rearward of the battery; and I p Figure 5 illustrates a sectional view of the device on the line 55 of Fig. 4. V

In these drawings, denotes a casing which is rectangular in plan and it may have a lid or cover 11 hinged at the top thereof, and the said casing may also be provided with a longitudinally extending partition 12, although this is a detail or i AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

1926; Serial No. 129,512.

construction that may beichanged to suitpa-rticular requirements. Abattery 13 is be established, as will presently appear,-

The frontpanel16 of the casing is provided with dials 17 and 18 with relation to which tuning disks or knobs 19 and 20 are rotatable, respectively. A lamp socket 21 extends through the. panel and a lamp 22 is supplied to. the socket, and'the terminal or contact-of the lamp is intended to be 'en-w gaged by a switch element or terminal 23, to which the conductor .15 is connected. The lamp socket has an arm 24; electrically connected to it at the rear side of the panel and the arm is intended to bear against the face oi a toothed wheel. 25, which toothed wheel acts as a conductor in the lamp circuit, as will presently appear.

The wheel 25 is rotatableon a spindle or shaft 26 which is journaled in the front panel, and the said spindle is rotatable with the knob 20 of the dial 18. The' wheel 25 has an insulating disk 27 on its face, and

the spindle extends through the said in? A switch contact 28-extends:

sulating disk. through the insulating disk and the contact is embedded or connected to the wheel 25. An insulating bushing 29 is rotatable with the spindle 26 and'a brush is also carried by the bushing and is movable therewith so that when the brush is moved over the insulating disk 27 to a sufiicient degree, it will engage the contact switch 28'and establish a circuit, as will presently appear.

A tie bar 131-is connected at or near one of its ends to the bushing and thebushing rotates in an aperture ofthe tie bar with the brush 30 in electrical engagement with the tie bar. The knob or disk 19 of the dial 17 is associated with aspindle or shaft32 that is rotatable in the panel and in the tie bar, from which tie bar, however, it is insulated, and the said spindle or shaft'has a gear wheel 83 mounted on it, that meshes with the teeth of thegear wheel 25. and

hence, as the gear wheel 33 is rotated. the gear wheel 25 will rotate on the shaft or spindle 26 without moving the saidshai't or spindle 26.

divided into a plurality of radially disposed spaces 35 and 36 on the respective dials.

" The spaces 35 are intended'to be supplied to the questions. 1

with indicia or questions, whereas the spaces" 36 may. cont-am answers to questions, the

' questions and answers being indiscriminately arranged 1n order that there Wlll be more or less uncertainty with respect to the answers The disk 19 is supplied with a pointer or indicator 37, and the disk I 30 issupplied with an indicator or pointer In operation, the disk 19 will be manipulated by a player and the indicator 37 will be moved to the question which he wishes to ask, and thereafter, the disk 20 will be rotated until the brush engages the electrical switch or contact 28- when a circuit will be established, lighting the lamp, at which to the question.

38 will be located with respect to the answers at the time the lamp is'illuminated.

' I'claim: V

1; In an amusement device, a casing, rotatable wheels mounted for movement in unison, an operating member by which one i of the wheels 1s rotated, a pointer on sa1d operating member, question spaces with relat1on to which the indicator 1s operable, a rotatable element on wh1ch the other wheel is rotatable, means for manipulating the rotatable element lncluding an indicator, a plurality of answer spaces with relation to -which the indicator is operative, an electrical circuit including a lamp, and means for controlling the circuit through the manipu- 1at1on of the last -ment1oned manipulating means.

2. In an amusement device, a casing", r0-

tatablewheels mounted for movement in unison, an operating member for rotating one of the wheels, a pointer on said operating member, question spaces with relation to which the indicator is operable, a ro tatable element on which the other wheel is rotatable, an insulating disk on the last mentioned wheel, a conductor connected to the wheel and exposed on the face of the insulating disk, means for rotating the said rotatable element including an indicator, a brush moved by the rotatable element for engaging. the conductor on the insulating disk, an electric lamp socket electrically. connected to one of the wheels, a lamp contact in operative relation to the socket, asource of electricity and conductors connected to the contact and said insulating bushings, a source of electricity connected to the tie bar, a lamp socket, a lamp contact in operable relation to the socket, asconductor from the source of electricity to the contact, a conductor from the lamp socket to one of the wheels, an insulating disk on one of the wheels, a brush mounted on the rotatable element and movable over the insulating disk, a brush contact extending through the insulating disk and electrically connected to the wheel on which the insulating disk is mounted whereby when the :rotatable element is electrically connected throughthe conductor on the wheel with the r turned, the brush will engage, the contact,

NATHAN KATZIN. 

